Exclude Activity Monitor employee monitoring software from Antivirus

Most antivirus products do not detect any problems with Activity Monitor employee monitoring software. In fact, there is no virus, spyware or malware in Activity Monitor software, as long as the downloaded file is digitally signed by Deep Software Inc. All our executable files are digitally signed by Deep Software Inc. You can check this by opening file’s Properties – Digital Signatures tab.

Activity Monitor product only does what is declared in its features on SoftActivity website, i.e. records employees’ activity on company-owned computers with the owner’s permission. Recordings are encrypted and stored on your company’s computers and not transferred outside of the company’s network. Any recorded information can only be seen by the administrators/supervisors who have access to the data and know the password. SoftActivity does not have any access to the information.

We recommend to add an exclusion in your antivirus to avoid detection and removal of Activity Monitor and Agent with any future updates of your antivirus product. It will then ignore presence of Activity Monitor and allow monitoring of computers in your office network and will not notify users.

We have posted instructions for popular antivirus products in Documentation. If your antivirus is not on the list, follow these general instructions below that apply to any antivirus product

To prevent any antivirus product from detecting, reporting to users and/or removing Activity Monitor files you need to exclude the folder where Activity Monitor monitoring console and Agents are installed

Then download and install Activity Monitor. It should install into the above folder.

Optionally, you may first install Activity Monitor and after that add destination folder to exclusions. This is especially recommended on non-English versions of Windows, since “Program Files” folder is named differently

Instructions for excluding Agent on remote monitored computers:

Open Exclusions section in Settings in your antivirus, copy the folder name from here:C:\Windows\sysnchrb
and add it to exclusions

Install Agent locally or remotely as usual. The antivirus should ignore it

Additional information:

When adding an exclusion, take into account that browsing for folder may not show the folder, since it’s not created until the software has been installed. In this case copy the name of the folder from this article and paste it in your antivirus

If the antivirus does not allow entering folder name directly (only allows selecting a folder), create the folder in Windows and select it in the antivirus. Or first install the program and then select the folder for exclusion.

If you use a centralized app for managing the antivirus on all computers in your corporate network, simply use the management app to exclude the folder on all monitored computers before deploying Agent app

How to check file’s digital signature to verify that the file originates from Deep Software Inc. and has not been tampered with by 3rd parties: